Category: Art News

Futurist and writer Alvin Toffler is seen with his wife and longtime writing and research partner, Heidi Toffler, in 2002. Alvin Toffler, the author whose celebrated 1970 book Future Shock examined the danger and promise of the accelerating pace of change in society, died in his sleep Monday in Los

Author Heidi Durrow gathers with festivalgoers to celebrate Mixed Remixed in 2015. A couple weeks ago, about a thousand people gathered at a museum in Los Angeles for Mixed Remixed, a free two-day festival featuring events like a memoir writing workshop, a Loving Day Wine and Cheese reception, a screening

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have been known to carry the Zika virus, buzz in a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. The mosquito-borne Zika epidemic is headed for its first summer in the United States. New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross that if the virus

Willard Middle School students chop carrots for a meal they will sell through Josephine. We’re facing a kind of food revolution, and my generation is driving it. Not so long ago, when fast-food giants reigned supreme, takeout meant cheap, quick, greasy meals. But a recent Goldman Sachs report found that

When we look at the world around us, we don’t see everything. We can’t. Humans evolved in a very specific environment and adapted to maximize their chances of surviving in it. We are creatures of the Earth, a planet bathed in radiation from a star with a surface temperature of

Can a computer write a sonnet that’s indistinguishable from what a human can produce? Computer scientists at Dartmouth College tried to answer that question with a competition that NPR’s Joe Palca reported on as part of his series, Joe’s Big Idea. It might actually tell you a lot more about

Terry McMillan accepts the award for outstanding literary work, fiction, for Getting to Happy at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards in 2011 in Los Angeles. “She very much looked like the characters,” says Bass. “She very much spoke like someone that you were familiar with. So where there were other

Bernie Worrell, Grady Thomas, unident., Fuzzy Haskins, George Clinton, Tiki Fulwood, unident., Michael Hampton, unident., Calvin Simon of the funk band Parliament-Funkadelic pose for a portrait in circa 1974. Updated at 5 p.m. ET. I want to take a moment to remember and appreciate Bernie Worrell, the former keyboard star

Markets

President Obama speaks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Concerns about a possible “Brexit” were floating in the air as British investors met with state economic teams at the two-day summit. If you’re on the economic development team for your state, you are happy — dancing-in-the-street

Treatments

When mental health professionals don’t take insurance, only the wealthy can afford their help. There’s something that really bothers Stanford psychiatry professor Keith Humphreys. When he thinks of all the years he has spent training the next generation of psychiatrists, the enormous investment in medical school and residency, he wants